Average payroll of Major League Baseball teams from 2002 to 2012 (in million U.S. dollars)

The timeline shows the average team payroll in Major League Baseball from 2002 to 2012, for all teams. Also depicted is the average payroll of those teams that made the playoffs in each year. In 2003, the average payroll of all MLB teams was at 70.9 million U.S. dollars.